Combined puzzle and toy



(No Model) 1 F. A. JENSEN. GOMBINED PUZZLE AND TOY.

No. 579,485. Patented Mar. 23, 1897.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 579,485, dated March 23, 1897. Application filed October 19, 1896. Serial No. 609,382. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK A. JENSEN, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin a Combined Toy and Puzzle, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which-e Figure 1 is a perspective View. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view. Figs. 3 and 4 are details, and Fig. 5 is avertical section.

A platform A is so adapted that the sections A may be secured thereto, as, for instance, by means of pegs a or similar means. The sections are provided with suitable means,as,for instance,by tongues and grooves (1, whereby they maybe joined to each other. The shape of the sections may be such as to form any suitable structure, as shown in the drawings, where B is a barn-like structure which consists in sections having tongues and grooves, so that they may be joined together. The sections should have passages through them for a purpose hereinafter to be described, and should be adapted to be joined together, so as to make with the platform A a staple structure, the building of which would form a source of amusement.

The form shown in the drawings isa crude representation of Libby Prison, in which the sections A, when properly joined together, form various yards, and in which sections 13 form the house or barn. A fence, as D, is placed in front of the aperture leading out of the house B. Apertures C lead through from one yard to the other. When formed together, the sections A form a continuous hidden passage C from the yard out to the freedom space D, the balls D indicating the passageway.

o is an aperture leading from the passage C into the compartment in the building B, that has an outlet into the freedom-space. The other passage-ways are provided with stops, so that the open passageway, necessarily an arbitrary one, is not known and is problematic to the operator, who by a deft manipulation of the structure rolls the balls or prisoners D out through the passage way to freedom. The house B may have a passage-way formed therein, as indicated in Fig. 5, in which E is a compartment in the structure B, in which the prisoners may be inserted and from which they may be rolled down incline 1), running diagonally lengthwise the structure B and through the aperture c in the yards and from thence to freedom in the previously-described manner.

WVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination in a puzzle of a series of compartments having hollow walls, said compartments having outlets one from the other, said outlets communicating to the said hollow walls, a continuous passage through one or more of said walls to the outside of the structure, and balls adapted to pass through said outlets and through said hollow walls, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination in a puzzle of a miniature structure having a series of compartments and rooms and one or more balls, the walls of said compartments having passageways therethrough. and openings therein whereby the said ball or balls could be rolled from one to the other of said compartments, and the said passage-Ways in said walls being so arranged that only one continuous passage is made from the inside of said structure to the outside, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a toy structure having a series of rooms or compartments composed of sections adapted to be joined and built up progressively with a series of blind passage-ways in the walls or sides of said structure and a continuous and tortuous passage leading from the inside to the outside of said structure, said passages being invisible, and one or more balls, substantially as described.

4. The combination in a toy structure of a series of rooms or compartments opening from one to each other, said rooms composed of sections adapted to be erected one upon the other to form the structure, said sections having passage-Ways through them, said passageways having openings into said rooms or compartments and some of them blind, a eontinso arranged that the ball cannot be returned uous and tortuous passage being formed in from the outside to the inside, substantially said Walls whereby, bya manipulation of the as described.

structure, aball can be passed from one 00111- FREDERICK A. JENSEN. partment to the other and through said 0011- \Vitnesses:

tinuous passage to the outside of the struc- ARTHUR JOHNSON,

ture, substantially as described, said passages G. A. STEWARD. 

